What shoots think of our shoot benchmarking survey
• 100% of shoots that have taken part found it useful • It is seen as a useful tool for comparison with other shoots • The financial data produced is considered unique and highly valued
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I find the survey a very useful “tool” to compare shoot costs and efficiency
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122 shoots told us what they thought of our survey
David Steel, Head of Sporting Smiths Gore t 01200 411051 e david.steel@smithsgore.co.uk
Ian Lindsay, Director of Advisory Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust t 01497 831100 e ilindsay@gwct.org.uk Credit - Hugh Nutt
Have you ever taken part? 122 Responses
How useful was it? 98 Responses
How often should we do the survey? 107 responses
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Yes, once
Yes, more than once
Not useful at all
Fairly useful/ okay
Very useful
How can we improve the survey? 43 responses More local comparison
Each year
Every two years
Less often/ never
Differentiate more between different types of shoot
More financial information
Which parts are most / least useful? Net balance range from +79% for Beaters / pickers up rates to -28% for source of clients 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0 -20% -40% Beaters/ picker up rates
Variable and fixed costs
Price charged per bird
Price paid for poults
Return rates
Staff salaries
Land rents
Number of birds shot
Bag size
Habitat Predator management management
Overages
Game sales data
Shoot intentions
% of let days sold
Source of clients
The most useful are data that allow shoots to compare performance
What we are going to do next We are grateful for the feedback from shoots and, based on it, are going to:
• Provide better local comparisons if we have enough shoots taking part to do so
• Provide more information on prices, both charges per bird and of costs, to shoots that take part; we will continue to make some data public
• Produce year-on-year comparisons for shoots so they can see how they are changing over time